For those of you who have not looked past Hillary, Rudy and Obama, Ron Paul has some very refreshing views and has proven himself to be man of great integrity during his long run representing TX in the US congress.

if you really study the current fiscal policy it is very very wacked. But even if enough new voters come out and elect Ron Paul, he will not be able to make all the changes he wants - even George W. in his first term with a Republican congress was unable to do more than 1-2 of his top 10 items.

I think I was one of the biggest supporters of the Iraq War when it first began, and I still think it was fully justified, but I am ready to throw in towel, not cut and run, but get out and let them fight their own fight. The financial and casuality losses are too great to minimal gains.

Ron Paul is smart, he has libertarian viewpoints, but is attempting to run as Republican because 3rd party canidates just don't seem to have a snowball's chance. Now if he doesn't get Republican nod, he might very well run as independent, but starting out as Republican is smart move.

Also, Ron Paul may be the only Candidate who still values the Constitution, he's not an economic genius. His tirades against the weak dollar is ill informed. I don't know what his background is, but hearing him on economic policy, I can say it isn't economics. So far, Bernenke and the Fed have performed solidly in reaction to a threat of recession and the liquidity crisis.

wonder how much you've heard, because his theory of inflation tax is pretty strong. When the dollar weakens because of oversupply, we "tax" the lower income bracket via inflation, their dollar doesnt go as far all because we wanted to increase monetary supply and pay off war debt.
Working Americans like lower taxes. So do I. Lower taxes benefit all of us, creating jobs and allowing us to make more decisions for ourselves about our lives.

Whether a tax cut reduces a single mother’s payroll taxes by $40 a month or allows a business owner to save thousands in capital gains taxes and hire more employees, that tax cut is a good thing. Lower taxes allow more spending, saving, and investing which helps the economy — that means all of us.

Real conservatives have always supported low taxes and low spending.

But today, too many politicians and lobbyists are spending America into ruin. We are nine trillion dollars in debt as a nation. Our mounting government debt endangers the financial future of our children and grandchildren. If we don’t cut spending now, higher taxes and economic disaster will be in their future — and yours.

In addition, the Federal Reserve, our central bank, fosters runaway debt by increasing the money supply — making each dollar in your pocket worth less. The Fed is a private bank run by unelected officials who are not required to be open or accountable to “we the people.”

Worse, our economy and our very independence as a nation is increasingly in the hands of foreign governments such as China and Saudi Arabia, because their central banks also finance our runaway spending.

We cannot continue to allow private banks, wasteful agencies, lobbyists, corporations on welfare, and governments collecting foreign aid to dictate the size of our ballooning budget. We need a new method to prioritize our spending. It’s called the Constitution of the United States.

Jeng wrote:I would rather see the money spent on a presidential bid rather than other uses that white supremacists/kkk could be using that money to do. Hell he should ask for even more money, drain them.

Wow, do I sound like i am defending Dems here. Its not what I am trying to do. BUT, lets say Hillary Clinton accepted money from the KKK and didn't return it. In fact, she didn't say anything about it at all except "we'll look into it." Don't you think she would get her ass RIPPED by both sides of the aisle for that?

Any candidate who accepts money from anyone other than a Federal electoral funding source should be ridiculed. Private financing of elections is bullshit to begin with. Anyone who's taken any sort of ethics class could see a conflict of interest. I'm going to go ahead and rope Haliburton, Monsanto, Walmart, Blackwater, ExxonMobil, Dow Chemicals, etc., in with the KKK. They all would like agendas pushed that help their own bottom line rather than what is best for the nation.

And to think there are candidates advocating overturning the McCain-Feingold bill, as modest as it is. This country's electoral process is a joke and will continue to be so. I can't even watch coverage of either sides debates without getting sick. The spin cycle starts immediately and the candidate that particular networks want to win are given more coverage and afterthoughts. You can already see a media that is leveraging the election for Hillary. I will put 500 dollars on Hillary right now because of the media bias thus far. Politics are for chumps and this country is now full of them. 50 stars on the flag stand for 50 morons for every 1 intelligible person. This is why we will fall behind in the world.

Mouser wrote:Any candidate who accepts money from anyone other than a Federal electoral funding source should be ridiculed. Private financing of elections is bullshit to begin with. Anyone who's taken any sort of ethics class could see a conflict of interest. I'm going to go ahead and rope Haliburton, Monsanto, Walmart, Blackwater, ExxonMobil, Dow Chemicals, etc., in with the KKK. They all would like agendas pushed that help their own bottom line rather than what is best for the nation.

And to think there are candidates advocating overturning the McCain-Feingold bill, as modest as it is. This country's electoral process is a joke and will continue to be so. I can't even watch coverage of either sides debates without getting sick. The spin cycle starts immediately and the candidate that particular networks want to win are given more coverage and afterthoughts. You can already see a media that is leveraging the election for Hillary. I will put 500 dollars on Hillary right now because of the media bias thus far. Politics are for chumps and this country is now full of them. 50 stars on the flag stand for 50 morons for every 1 intelligible person. This is why we will fall behind in the world.

Mouser does have the right idea on this one, while I have issues with losing my ability to support my candidate with my money, I mean shit after all it is mine who is the FEC to tell me where I can and can not spend it at the end of the day privately funded elections need to die. I'm all for allowing independent groups to run adds to support one candidate or the other but gee if I run a power company and I give $1,000,000 to a candidate who then wins, can you honestly say that I don't expect anything in return? No I'm gonna be pissed as hell if I don't get my calls returned and the candidate doesn't do everything in his or her power to get laws passed the benefit me.

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Who gives a shit if its not gonna affect your mindset. If a leader of a major drug cartel gave you "blood money", will you just turn your head on that one too?

I know $500 isn't much, but there is a shitload of traffic going to Ron Paul's website from White Supremacist sites. I hear a whole 2 hour talk about it a couple weeks ago. Fucking distance yourself from these people. It may be the reason your in the "second tier"

Jay you are an asshat. The canidates cannot control who donates, and unlike Hilbama or Huckommeycain, Ron Paul is getting 99% of his donations from individuals, not from PACs.

Besides, white supremists are idiots, but they have a right to spend their money on the canidate they choose, and why not take their money and use it for good. Do you think WalMart doesn't accept money from white supremists or money made from sale of drugs? Give me a break pollanna, go put your head back in the sand or up your ass.

"Dr. Paul stands for freedom, peace, prosperity and inalienable rights. If someone with small ideologies happens to contribute money to Ron, thinking he can influence Ron in any way, he's wasted his money," Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said. "Ron is going to take the money and try to spread the message of freedom."

"And that's $500 less that this guy has to do whatever it is that he does," Benton added.

EatMoreLead wrote:Jay you are an asshat. The canidates cannot control who donates, and unlike Hilbama or Huckommeycain, Ron Paul is getting 99% of his donations from individuals, not from PACs.

Besides, white supremists are idiots, but they have a right to spend their money on the canidate they choose, and why not take their money and use it for good. Do you think WalMart doesn't accept money from white supremists or money made from sale of drugs? Give me a break pollanna, go put your head back in the sand or up your ass.

"Dr. Paul stands for freedom, peace, prosperity and inalienable rights. If someone with small ideologies happens to contribute money to Ron, thinking he can influence Ron in any way, he's wasted his money," Paul spokesman Jesse Benton said. "Ron is going to take the money and try to spread the message of freedom."

"And that's $500 less that this guy has to do whatever it is that he does," Benton added.

So where does he stop? Like I said before, its ok to take $500 from a white supremacist, then why not take $100,000 from the leader of a drug cartel.

2300 is the max you can give per canidate, so obviously he stops at 2300. You are a hypocrite working for Wallymart and even saying such a thing - does WalMart check 100 dollar bills to make sure there is no cocaine residue on them?